Pats’ Hoyer exits with head injury, Zappe enters

Aaron Rodgers is clearly unhappy with the franchise and may want a fresh start elsewhere, but he’s left open the possibility of reconciliation. It’s at least a glimmer of hope.

Donte Moncrief came into camp with a good shot of winning the Steelers’ No. 2 wide receiver job alongside JuJu Smith-Schuster and an injury early in camp may not have slowed him down much. Moncrief broke his ring finger during the team’s first padded practice and he’s been a full participant

Jerry Jones won’t put a number on the attendance for the Dallas Cowboys’ home opener until the crowd is announced later this month at AT&T Stadium. The owner of the Cowboys also hopes the 80,000-seat venue with standing room space that pushes capacity past 90,000 will be closer to full as the pandemic-altered NFL season goes on. All of which is to say the league’s clubs are preparing for a rapidly changing environment while accepting the bottom-line notion that playing games with limited numbers of fans or none at all will affect revenues in 2020.